Chino Ca

A 17-year-old junior at Don Lugo High School in Chino allegedly hacked into his school's computer system this month, changing his and a classmate's grades and also tapping into confidential student information, including Social Security numbers, officials said Tuesday. The boy, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, was arrested May 14 at the Chino Valley Unified School District offices on suspicion of violating state theft and privacy laws. He was released to his parents' custody.

The state is closing California's largest youth prison as the population of juvenile offenders in state custody continues to decline, corrections officials announced Thursday. The Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility in Chino will be converted into an adult prison, state officials said. The move is part of a plan to "right-size" staff at the Division of Juvenile Justice, which is reducing its workforce by 400 employees by the end of this year to save the state up to $40 million, said Bernard Warner, the chief deputy secretary for the division.

The state is closing California's largest youth prison as the population of juvenile offenders in state custody continues to decline, corrections officials announced Thursday. The Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility in Chino will be converted into an adult prison, state officials said. The move is part of a plan to "right-size" staff at the Division of Juvenile Justice, which is reducing its workforce by 400 employees by the end of this year to save the state up to $40 million, said Bernard Warner, the chief deputy secretary for the division.

How do you make 18,000 pounds of beef disappear? Although it may sound like a trick question, it was a very real issue last week for Lynnelle Grumbles as she and other school food service managers throughout California grappled with the aftermath of the largest beef recall in U.S. history.

Four members of a Chino family were killed when their private plane crashed last week on Whitehouse Mountain near Ouray, about an hour's drive from the ski town of Telluride. The victims were pilot Robert R. Ford, 59; his wife, Patricia, 57; son Richard, 36; and Richard's son, Matthew, 4. Officials had not released the names of the victims, but Laurie LaCuran, Patricia Ford's niece by marriage, identified them in a telephone interview from her home in Chino.

The new prime-time soap opera "The O.C." isn't getting rave reviews in Chino. In the show's inaugural episode Tuesday, the young and beautiful people of Orange County's Newport Beach took delight in bashing the city of Chino as a seedy backwater, where crass neighbors live in run-down homes with chain-link fences and lawns littered with weeds, tires and mattresses. And residents of Chino are firing back.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the largest beef recall in its history Sunday, calling for the destruction of 143 million pounds of raw and frozen beef produced by a Chino slaughterhouse that has been accused of inhumane practices. However, the USDA said the vast majority of the meat involved in the recall -- including 37 million pounds that went mostly to schools -- probably has been eaten already. Officials emphasized that danger to consumers was minimal.

Startled by the roar of jets touching down at Ontario Airport, a nervous herd of 1,500 sheep scuttle across the abandoned vineyards near the San Bernardino Freeway. Sheepherder Tony Rodriguez, a first-generation Basque who came to the Chino Valley in 1965, curses the low-flying planes, then laments the disappearance of affordable range for his sheep. "When we first come here, we talk about acres of land for grazing our sheep; now we talk in square feet," said Rodriguez.

There isn't a pooper scooper big enough to handle this mess. San Bernardino County officials are in trouble for allowing 31,000 tons of cow manure to be stored at Chino's Prado Regional Park. The problem is that the county leases the land from the Army Corps of Engineers, which didn't care for the 62 million pounds of dung plopped on its flood control basin.

A federal judge will begin fining five Chino dairies $500 a day if they don't implement a pilot project to reduce air and water pollution from foul-smelling open wastewater lagoons within two weeks. But a dairy representative said they are already at work designing a state-of-the-art wastewater lagoon, and accused environmental groups that sued the dairies of "just trying to make the headlines." U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the largest beef recall in its history Sunday, calling for the destruction of 143 million pounds of raw and frozen beef produced by a Chino slaughterhouse that has been accused of inhumane practices. However, the USDA said the vast majority of the meat involved in the recall -- including 37 million pounds that went mostly to schools -- probably has been eaten already. Officials emphasized that danger to consumers was minimal.

San Bernardino County prosecutors Friday filed felony charges against a former Chino slaughterhouse manager who allegedly used cruel methods to force ailing cattle into the slaughter box. The charges follow last month's release of a video showing treatment of animals at the plant, which led to schools nationwide pulling beef from cafeterias.

A twin-engine plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Chino Airport on Tuesday morning, killing two people. The aircraft, identified by Federal Aviation Administration officials as a Beechcraft A100 King Air, was headed to Visalia when it went down at 9:20 a.m. The plane landed upside down in a field that is part of the Herman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility, less than a mile west of the airport.

Authorities are investigating whether a fire that damaged sections of a 112-year-old church was deliberately set. The blaze Saturday afternoon at Chino United Methodist burned its way up a beam to the roof starting about 1:40 p.m., city spokeswoman Michelle Van Der Linden said. The fire was extinguished by 5 p.m., she said. Firefighters had to remove roof tiles and cut into a box surrounding the beam to stop the flames.

A pilot who was killed Friday when the experimental plane he was flying crashed in the frontyard of a house has been identified as a resident of China. The San Bernardino County coroner's website said he was Hyung Jun Lee, 57. Lee was operating an ultra-light aircraft that had taken off from Chino Airport. He was the sole occupant. The 1:24 p.m. accident is under investigation by Chino police and the Federal Aviation Administration.

A heart-pounding high-speed police chase and a bystander's amateur video, the grist of Southern California's crude blend of street crime and reality television, will be at the center of a highly charged police brutality trial set to begin today in San Bernardino. Ivory Webb Jr., a former San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy, faces charges of attempted voluntary manslaughter and assault with a firearm for opening fire on an unarmed man sprawled on the ground after a pursuit in Chino in 2006.

Five large dairies in the Chino area have entered legal agreements to modernize operations and reduce pollution, particularly from giant waste "lagoons," to stave off litigation by environmentalists. The agreements approved Monday by a federal judge in Los Angeles and announced Tuesday are designed to curb contamination that spreads through the air and water, both on the surface and underground.

It's a bar like any other bar: the low afternoon light, the dedicated regulars, the neon beer signs and liquor bottles along the back wall. But then one notices the pictures of sheep. Woolly flocks on mountainsides. A fat ewe in a meadow. There are also a few paintings of cows, and one of a group of men in white costumes dancing on a hillside above the sea. This is the Centro Basco Restaurant & Cocktail bar in Chino.

Dairy farms and crops once blanketed this corner of San Bernardino County. But now there's a master-planned community in the middle, bringing new meaning to Chino's motto: "Where Everything Grows." Beginnings Half a century ago, Chino was fast becoming a thriving dairy center, eventually boasting more than 400 family-owned dairies and 400,000 head of cattle.